New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-08
NOTES FROM LONDON.
LORD WOLSELEY AND THE PRESS-MR.
BRIGHT MR.. RIDER HAGGARD - MR.
BEERBOHM TREE,


Once more the lion and the lamb
n they have not lain down together they
have broken bread together. The Press Ciul
have given q dinner, and Lord Wolseley has Oeei
their guest and made them speech Inc oin'
General Of Great Britain and the war coiie,
spondents at the same table would not pe p"o
subject for O picture Everything was aiian ms,
In the most amicable manner. MI Chaiio0 "
Dams proposed the Army, Navy anu huAn"l . ,
Forces OF the Queen, and pronounced paness u,
ON Lord Wolseley / presume he praised Loro
Wolseley's valor and skill, both Oh WHICH ue'c,
praise But the passage which the reporter na'
chosen for print touches on more hoiheAs n'1
ter What seemed to Mr.. Williams worthy u
note was the fact that in Egypt the ornY
General had conducted column 1900 miles
from IFS base. and that every man at the furthes'
point had two meals Of meat every day nj
wished it, which he pretty certainly did. MI
Wliiamss testimony is that of an expert lie
Ia the successor to Cameron, who was success
sor TO Forbes, and is not the least OF the three
His campaign in Egypt gave him place al Ih'
head of his profession.
Lord Wolseley's testimony about the Press Is
however moro interesting than the testimony u
The Press about Lord WOlseley What nara
things OUR British Hero has heretofore SAID
hbout war correspondents we all remember any
body who forgets need only be referred 70
that manual of war known as the "Soidler 5
Pocket Book for Field Service Now oil Is
changed He tells his entertainers how glad he is
10 respond to toast proposed by one with whom
u have recently had the Pleasure of being asso'
riated on active service" He Is glad also 10 see
two other members of the Press "who were aiso
n NAV say assistants Of mine, or VINO cerUannS
ro-operated with me and rendered me The greatest
possible aid on all occasions during the Mic eA
pedition" Then the not rises even mgher. MI
Williams was my friend and companion-l may
almost call him my comrade.'
Well. this is a gratifying change, and we owe
4 SUPPOSE some thanks to Mr.. Williams as the
Immediate occasion of it. 1 cannot but think
That other causes more remote were not less Oh
rect The deaths of Cameron and HERBERT Old
the battlefield may have helped to convince
Lord Wolseley that war correspondent may
face death as bravely as soldier.
\ Mr. Bright has been writing another letter on
Free Trade and Protection, this time to explain
why other nations refuse to follow the example
bf England, but keep onto use Mr.. DrGho
bhrase-their high tariff. The reason, says MI
Bright, is plain:
? The Protectionists are an organized army ano
The consumers are a mob. 1t is easier also 10
levy taxes, because the manufacturing c4aSses
do not complain of taxes which II is preeenueu
Are imposed for their special beneho Inc rlo
tectionists in the United States are purdeheu
with large surplus revenue ana YET uley u.s.
TO lower their import duties or lessen thelr pro
nection and this is promoting system u COT
ruption unequalled in any other country
q Hard words from Mr.. Bright against America
hre never pleasant reading, but neither are Uhese
The first, nor does the great orator ever soften
his heart or his diction when he has to set forth
The wiclxedness of the Americans who do not
wish to sec their own manufactures ruined ana
hxtino,isbed for The benefit of British manufact'
ure1s But we may protest against being told
that our system of corruption is unequaled III
my other country, be it due to Protection or 10
whatever else. Let Mr.. Bright take the trouble
To find out something about the corruption thaC
Exists, for example, in Spain and In Russia vi
what would he say to Turkey?
I Mr. Rider Haggard sends strong letter 10
t~1he Times" stating the case as between him
telf and "The Pail Mall Gazette The charge
(which that paper brought against him-of piaglar'
izing she from Moore's '"Epicurean'' or from
the poem "Alciphron'-has been abandoned
But how has it been abandoned? asks MI lag
lard and answers thus:
.rIn a paragraph under the head OF Literary
Ind Art Notes, etc., tho Journal whlch las
headed the hunt against me prints my oehiaI
and states that such parallel PASSAGES do
In the two books an instance, IL Is no"
kettled. not of imitation but of literary com
6idence' How many people, L ask, VINO nave
been Impressed with the pomp ana cHcunr
stance of the leading articles, the sensatlonaily
headed paragraphs and all the loud artillery OF
advertised attack, will be likely TO become ac'
ouainted with this modest wlthdrawA1
/, Vary Few. thinks Mr.. Rider Haggard; and
therefore. repeats his denial in a journal where
assertion and denial may be said alike TO count
Nor something. 1.-The Pail Mall Gazette started
tb;s campaign against Mr.. Haggard as sen
'satiop: worked it as q sensation; printed article
hitter article; made and repeated It's elaborate
accusation when it knew that Mr. Haggard was
in Egypt; suppressed the answer Oh MS Dro'hef
Nor twelve days, then printed 1t with an ABUSIVE
hote finally acknowledged itself wrong In Ihe
,nodest manner which Mr.. Haggard describes.
throughout the business it showed as much con-
sIderation for Mr.. Haggards rights and feelings
ss Maend;e showed for the feelings Of the rabbit
he was dtssecting alive for the amusement OF his
students. Mr. Haggard and his friends, like the
rabbit took the matter too seriously. No author
likes being accused of plagiarism, but MI. Hag'
rard should consider how much worse his plight
,voud have been had he been accused by a
serious paper and defended by The Pail Mall
Gazette
That Journal answers him in its own way
parbles his letter, calls him bad letter writer
wants to know what his grievance is. and winds
am by declaring that Mr.. Haggard ought to be
grateful. Wen, perhaps he ought though it is
pdd to find "1he Pail Mall asserting that to be
reviled in its columns is O cause for gratitude.
. There are people who hold that the actor has
rs much as the author to do with the creation
bf a character in play; that Garrick' fol
instance. was not far of Shakespeare and SO on
These theorists belong for the most part to the
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